Vote
[vəʊt] or [vot]
Definition
(noun.) the opinion of a group as determined by voting; 'they put the question to a vote'.
(noun.) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative; 'there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion'; 'they allowed just one vote per person'.
(noun.) the total number of voters who participated; 'they are expecting a large vote'.
(noun.) a body of voters who have the same interests; 'he failed to get the Black vote'.
(verb.) be guided by in voting; 'vote one's conscience'.
(verb.) express one's choice or preference by vote; 'vote the Democratic ticket'.
(verb.) express a choice or opinion; 'I vote that we all go home'; 'She voted for going to the Chinese restaurant'.
(verb.) bring into existence or make available by vote; 'They voted aid for the underdeveloped countries in Asia'.
(verb.) express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote; 'He voted for the motion'; 'None of the Democrats voted last night'.
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Definition
(n.) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
(n.) A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
(n.) That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.
(n.) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
(n.) Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
(v. i.) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
(v. t.) To choose by suffrage; to elec/; as, to vote a candidate into office.
(v. t.) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.
(v. t.) To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.
(v. t.) To condemn; to devote; to doom.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Suffrage, voice.[2]. Ballot.
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Definition
n. expression of a wish or opinion as to a matter in which one has interest: that by which a choice is expressed as a ballot: decision by a majority: something granted by the will of the majority.—v.i. to express the choice by a vote.—v.t. to choose by a vote: to grant by a vote: (coll.) to declare by general consent.—adjs. Vō′table capable of voting; Vote′less.—ns. Vō′ter; Vō′ting-pā′per a balloting-paper used in the election of members to Parliament.—Vote down to put an end to by a vote or otherwise; Vote straight to give one's vote honestly.—Cumulative voting that system of voting in which the voter has a right to as many votes as there are members to be elected and may give all his votes or as many as he pleases to one candidate.—Split one's votes to divide one's votes judiciously among several candidates so as to strengthen those one favours.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream of casting a vote on any measure, you will be engulfed in a commotion which will affect your community. To vote fraudulently, foretells that your dishonesty will overcome your better inclinations.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Examples
- He's good enough for the occasion: when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man--they only want a vote. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There were, in fact, but few things which Luttrell did not vote a tax on life, being one of the most dissatisfied men I ever knew. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Therefore women should vote. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What is his vote? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The vote has become a convenient peg upon which to hang aspirations that are not at all sure of their own meaning. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The ex-butler had obtained a small freehold there likewise, which gave him a vote for the borough. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Who do you give your casting vote to? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Even for that purpose their votes did not have the same value as those of their patrician fellow citizens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Men had votes in Italy in the time of the Gracchi. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The more issues a party meets the less votes it is likely to poll. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Bradford still printed the votes, and laws, and other public business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They get the votes, enough to elect them to office. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mr. Hamilton procured me also the printing of the laws and votes of that government, which continued in my hands as long as I followed the business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The British got votes because they wanted them; the Irish commonalty got votes because the English did. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was voted low to sneer at Dobbin about this accident of birth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She had voted the same. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had voted for it and would do it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He probably misconceived every issue upon which he voted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They voted an aid of ten thousand pounds, to be laid out in provisions. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I should vote against my conscience if I voted against Mr. Tyke--I should indeed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Many refused to pay a fee, and voted him _ignorantus, ignoranta, ignorantum! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And now, when the question of voting had come, this repulsive fact told more strongly against Mr. Farebrother than it had done before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The question whether the voting was to be by the estates or by head was clearly a vital one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Moreover, Lydgate did not like the consciousness that in voting for Tyke he should be voting on the side obviously convenient for himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And of the monstrous ineffectiveness of the Roman voting system we have already written. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Voting is a formal method of registering consent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In Rome the _proletarii_ were a voting division of fully qualified citizens whose property was less than 10,000 copper asses (= ?275). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But I shall not desist from voting with him on that account. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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